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Don't Touch My Hair
Check out Don't Touch My Hair - <p><b>'Groundbreaking <i>. . .</i> a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history' Bernardine Evaristo</b> <br /><br />Straightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.<br /><br />This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Over a series of wry, informed essays, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We look everything from hair capitalists like Madam C.J. Walker in the early 1900s to the rise of Shea Moisture today, from women's solidarity and friendship to 'black people time', forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids.<br /><br />The scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to the (afro)futuristic. Uncovering sophisticated indigenous mathematical systems in black hairstyles, alongside styles that served as secret intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans to freedom, <i>Don't Touch My Hair </i>proves that far from being <i>only </i>hair<i>,</i> black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.</p> by Emma Dabiri on Bookshop.org UK!
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I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.
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Illustration for the 2025 edition of ‘The Last Unicorn’ by Peter S. Beagle, published with The Folio Society.
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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
Anaïs Kugel’s portraits are unmistakably from the female gaze
The Paris-based photographer has made a visual world that weaves together themes of identity, intimacy and femininity.
